Get Exceptional Green Documentaries in Hamilton Guaranteed

06Apr10

The 3rd Annual Environmental Film and Arts Festival is happening this April 7-24, 2010. And it has an exceptional line of hard hitting docs you’ll want to see. Organized by Francesca Trifone and her partner it promises to be a powerfully informative week for locals and visitors alike.

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Tags: bottle, documentaries, environmental, Food, Hamilton, Movies, oil, Ontario, sharks, water

Dirt Fights Climate Change Guaranteed

01Dec09

The UK’s Soil Association just put out a report 5 days before Copenhagen that farming’s biggest thing is in fighting climate change — putting carbon back into the soil and earth. Organic, chemical free farms have dirt that has 20-28% more carbon (the lego brick of all life) than your burned out non-organic, chemical fried farm. If the whole world turned to organic farming, you could cut greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention air pollution or acid rain) by 11%.

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Tags: biochar, carbon, climate change, COP15, copenhagen, dirt, greenhouse gas emissions, Soil Management

7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

22Nov09

Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the quick written summary you can read it below.

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Tags: careers, cities, colleges, Community Development, community food systems, Community Gardens, development, direct trade, economy, fair trade, Food, job, policy, public health, standard of living, urban, Wayne Roberts

What’s Wrong with GMOs?

19Oct09

By now most people know that GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. But how do GMOs affect us, the food we eat, and the environment? Jeffrey Smith, founder of the Institute for Responsible Technology provides a solid general overview in this interview.

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Tags: education, GMO Jeffrey Smith Genetics Genetically Modified Organisms environment health food safety technology science

World Food Is Running Dry for Too Many

11Jul09

Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty. But unlike previous shocks driven by short-term food shortages, this price spike came in a year when the world’s farmers reaped a record grain crop. This time, the high prices were a symptom of a larger problem tugging at the strands of our worldwide food web, one that’s not going away anytime soon. Simply put: For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing. After years of drawing down stockpiles, in 2007 the world saw global carryover stocks fall to 61 days of global consumption, the second lowest on record.

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Tags: corn, crisis, famine, Food, grain, hogs, hunger, Jeffrey Sachs, maize, Malthus, Millenium Development Goals, Millenium Villages, pigs, pork, poverty, security, shock, sovereignty, soybean, wheat

35 Million Americans Without Proper Access to Food

09Jun09

New York, NY–In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, investigative journalist and Demos Senior Fellow Sasha Abramsky exposes the untold story of America’s hunger crisis in his new book, “BreadlineUSA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It” (PoliPoint, June 2009).

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Tags: bread lines, breadlines, economic crisis, food banks, food stamps, Great Depression, hunger, job losses, labour, low income, poverty, USDA

‘Food, Inc.’ film looks at corporate impact on what we eat

27Jan09

Food writers Eric Schlosser (‘Fast Food Nation’) and Michael Pollan (‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’) move to the big screen in ‘Food, Inc.,’ a film that looks at what’s happened to the production of food in the last few decades.

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Tags: concentration, consolidation, corporations, dilemma, Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Food, impacts, industrial, industry, mergers, Michael Pollan, Omnivore, system

For 3 Years, Every Bite Organic

13Dec08

In a fascinating experiment — on himself — Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician and author in Danville, Calif., decided to find out. For the last three years, Dr. Greene has eaten nothing but organic foods, whether he’s cooking at home, dining out or snacking on the road.

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Tags: Agriculture, biota, community, development, nature, nurture, organic, organisms, relationships, Science, Soil, sustainability, sustainable

Food Matters – The Movie (Dead Serious!)

05Dec08

“With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and ourtendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with
our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. ‘Food Matters’ sets about uncovering the trillion dollar
worldwide “Sickness Industry” and giving people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.” – James

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Tags: antibiotics, cancer, chemical, diabetes, diet, diseases, Food, health, healthy living, herbicide, hormones, obesity, pesticide, security, sovereignty, toxin

It’s Corny! Potluck dinner and free screening of King Corn

29Nov08

About King Corn: a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives the fast-food nation. Best friends, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, move to the US heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm.

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Tags: Agriculture, corn, Food, fructose, genetic engineering, modified, pervasive, sugar, syrup, system